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Articles tagged with: Telenor Pakistan
China Mobile Reported to be in Talks to Buy Telenor Pakistan
China Mobile is reported to be in talks with Norway's Telenor concerning a merger of their respective Pakistani mobile networks. Although both the operators have denied any such development, sources told the local Dawn newspaper that negotiations were being held secretly at the group level. The deal is thought to involve China Mobile buying Telenor Pakistan and then merging the two networks. more
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Telenor Pakistan Names New CTO
Telenor Pakistan has appointed Khalid Shehzad as the firm's new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with immediate effect. Formerly, Khalid was heading the IT division of the company as its Chief Information Officer (CIO). Atiq Ahmed, Director Operations & Maintenance, Technical Division, is taking up an expanded role as Deputy CTO. more
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Telenor Wins Rural Pakistan Coverage Deal
Pakistan's Universal Service Fund (USF) and Telenor have entered into a Rs. 930 million (US$11.6 million) contract to provide basic telephony and data services to the population in the yet un-served areas of Sanghar, Tharparkar Umerkot and Mirpur Khas districts. more
Related Tags: sim, rsa, ict, rural, telenor, universal-service-fund, Pakistan
Acision Increases Capacity by 250% to Cater for Boom in SMS Traffic
Messaging vendor, Acision has announced that Telenor Pakistan has again selected the Acision SMSC to expand its messaging capacity by up to 250%. The growth in the country's subscriber rate has consequently led way to triple digit growth in messaging traffic over the last year. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, sms, mobile-data, acision, telenor, pakistan-mobile, smsc, Pakistan
Telenor Pakistan Boosts Mobile Data Monitoring
Telenor Pakistan has become the 100th customer for Nokia Siemens' NetAct Traffica real time customer traffic monitoring and analysis software. Telenor Pakistan has acquired the GPRS module of the solution for enhancing the data service experience for its customers. more
Related Tags: nokia, telenor, nokia-siemens-networks, siemens, gprs, nokia-siemens, netact, Pakistan
Huawei Dploys Largest HLR in Pakistan
Huawei says that it has deployed the world' s largest next generation Home Location Register (HLR) solution for Telenor Pakistan. Huawei' s HLR solution is fully-distributed and has been deployed in the country' s three major cities of Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, and will serve 40 million subscribers. more
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Telenor Shuffles Management in Pakistan, Malaysia and Thailand
Telenor Pakistan has named Mr. Jon Eddy Abdullah as the company's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He will succeed Mr. Tore Johnsen - who is moving to elenor's Thai operation DTAC - from the middle of next month. Jon Eddy Abdullah has more than 15 years of experience, most recently as Chief Operating Officer in Maxis Telecommunications in Malaysia and Chief Technology Officer in DiGi. more
Related Tags: dtac, telenor, maxis, Pakistan
Pakistan Reports Second Slowest Subscriber Growth in Two Years
The latest figures from the Pakistani telecoms regulator show that the mobile market in Pakistan grew to 78.74m customers at the end of January. The figure for monthly net additions of 1.86m was 17% down on the January 2007 total, and also represented the second lowest figure for two years, the lowest being the 1.52m recorded last October. more
Related Tags: china-mobile, telenor, mobilink, pta, 3m, Pakistan
Telenor Deploys Solar Powered Repeater in Pakistan
Telenor Pakistan says that it has become the first operator in the country to use solar energy to power one of its repeater sites. The pilot site, which is in Buner in the North-West Frontier Province is a solar-electricity hybrid system that runs entirely on solar energy during the day and switches to electricity or battery power at night. more
Related Tags: telenor, bts, switches, Pakistan
Asia Pacific Operators in Q3 '07: CDMA staging a revival?
The three months ended September 30th saw a record number of new connections in the Asia Pacific region. Overall, nearly 85 million new customers were connected which is very nearly as many as Germany, Europe's largest economy, has added in the 22 years since mobile service started. The vast majority of these chose to adopt either GSM or WCDMA technology, these two accounting for 66.1m and 9.4m of the total respectively. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, wcdma, china-mobile, telekom-malaysia, telenor, bsnl, telkomsel, aircel, viettel, satelindo, excelcomindo, fixed-wireless, orascom